Sentences with phrase «by desperate mothers»

Your next stop is that which the drought has wrought: a fly - infested clinic where starving Somalian babies, cradled by desperate mothers, seem so close to you that you could almost reach out to comfort them.

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In a desperate attempt to undo what they have wrought, government leaders now promise a full eighteen months of parental leave, thus attempting to save their society by smuggling through the hack door what they so ruthlessly shoved out the front: mothers at home.

What Came First by Carol Snow introduces us to a young lady who is desperate to get married, an independent mother, and a couple who have to make tough choices.

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Inspired by the frightening true - life tale of a family that moved into a converted funeral home and subsequently fell under supernatural attack, director Peter Cornwell's The Haunting in Connecticut follows the quest of a desperate mother to free her family from the grip of an evil beyond human comprehension.

Though the fatal drive - by shooting that incites «Lila and Eve's» plan for vengeance has nothing to do with the police, it's the cops» eager willingness to dismiss 18 - year - old Stephon's (Aml Ameen) death as just another unsolvable casualty in the drug - turf wars — and by extension his mother's desperate need for justice — that sets the fast - moving plot into motion.

In episode 302, examining the hysteria whipped up by the media and politicians to «save» the traditional family structure, a desperate effort to perpetuate a fraudulent concept of mother, father, two kids, a dog and a picket fence.

Glass is desperate to protect his son, borne to a Pawnee mother killed during an English raid, right in front Glass» eyes, in the village wherein he spent what seems to be the best years of his life, and so he takes responsibility over the small surviving party (apparently led by Henry) and commands them to part with their raft fearing another ambush would follow should they continue floating that stream.

Convincing herself that the precious keepsake was delivered by a guardian angel on behalf of her long - lost mother, the desperate 12 year - old seizes on the discovery as a promising sign of a possible reunion.

«All the Money in the World,» tells the story of the kidnapping of 16 - year - old John Paul Getty III (played by Charlie Plummer) and his mother Gail's (played by Williams) desperate attempt to convince his billionaire grandfather J. Paul Getty (played by Plummer) to pay the ransom.

All the Money in the World follows the kidnapping of 16 - year - old John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer) and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother Gail (Michelle Williams) to convince his billionaire grandfather (Kevin Spacey) to pay the ransom.

All the Money in the World: Follows the kidnapping of 16 - year - old John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer) and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother Gail (Michelle Williams) to convince his billionaire grandfather (Christopher Plummer) to pay the ransom.

(In French, Arabic, Albanian and English) The Uninvited (PG - 13 for violence, disturbing images, mature themes, profanity, sexuality and teen drinking) Remake of Korean horror flick revolving around the desperate efforts of two sisters (Emily Browning and Arielle Kebbel) to warn their father (David Strathairn) about his fiancée's (Elizabeth Banks) sinister agenda after being visited by the ghost of their recently - deceased mother (Maya Massar).

Michelle Williams (Certain Women), as Paul's mother Gail — who married into the family and then antagonized them by divorcing her husband, addiction - prone J. Paul Getty, Jr. — especially shines as a woman desperate to save her son, and who must accept all manner of indignities to get even a fraction of the ransom money.

The film follows the kidnapping of 16 - year - old John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer) and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother Gail (Michelle Williams) to convince his billionaire grandfather (Kevin Spacey) to pay the ransom.

Kirsten Dunst gives another powerful performance as the young boy's desperate mother, while the cast is rounded out by Sam Shepherd as the cult leader and Joel Edgerton as a state trooper supporting the family in their bid for freedom.

She plays a mother who, desperate for answers in her daughter's murder case, begins a war with the local police by painting three billboards with slogans to highlight their inadequacies.

Although English actress Imogen Poots isn't American either, she nearly saves the exercise by bringing a shred of human warmth to her portrayal of a flagrantly unfit mother who drags her 8 - year - old son through a host of illegal schemes in a desperate effort to put a roof over their heads.

As a single mother of five and in desperate need of a new vehicle with out any knowledge of cars I walked cautiously into Tri County Toyota and was me... t by Don Richards.

Adams's life story encapsulates the history of the founding era, for she defined herself in relation to the people she loved or hated (she was never neutral): her mother, whom she considered terribly overprotective; Benjamin Franklin, who schemed to clip her husband's wings; her sisters, whose dependence upon Abigail's charity strained the family bond; James Lovell, her husband's bawdy congressional colleague, who peppered her with innuendo about John's «rigid patriotism»; her financially naïve husband (Abigail earned money in ways the president considered unsavory, took risks that he wished to avoid — and made him a rich man); Phoebe Abdee, her father's former slave, who lived free in an Adams property but defied Abigail's prohibition against sheltering others even more desperate than herself; and her son John Quincy, who worried her with his tendency to «study out of spight» but who fueled her pride by following his father into public service, rising to the presidency after her death.

The implied message is that the mother bear and cub in the film have been caught by the camera crew in their last desperate gasps, victims of man - made global warming.

He concluded: «What we have here is a multifaceted, severe, malicious, self - serving, deliberate campaign of parental alienation, a desperate and misguided attempt by a naive mother to keep her children to herself, regardless of the consequences to them.»

Guys feel cheated as their alone - time with the new mother gets crowded out by the baby's endless, desperate needs.

Our advice service is therefore being overwhelmed by desperate and scared mothers who have suffered or are suffering domestic abuse.

I would suggest that to address your issue of attacking the people that are «flat broke, desperate, and would sell their own Mother just to earn a buck, so they behave in unspeakable terms at every opportunity» could be addressed by requiring that any person selling real estate should have a net worth of $ $ $ $??? (Needs to be discussed and settled upon) Maybe salespeople should own their own house before they can sell real estate.